Master of Drudgery
The Maître of Drudgery ( Taskmaster in English) is an Super-unpleasant pertaining to the universe of Marvel Comics and appeared for the first time in Avengers #195 .
Initially enemy of the Avengers, he became an anti-hero little by little.
Origin
Nobody knows the identity of the Master of Drudgery. Still child, it made sign of photomémorielle capacity extraordinary. He could reproduce in one moment what he saw on TV.
He made use of this talent to grow rich as of adolescence and to become a famous American football player, by looking at the matches on TV.
He thought a time to become a Vigilant but perceived the career of criminal like more lucrative.
He studied the techniques of combat of the supermen based with NYC, plundered some banks and undertook to open a school of training of mercenaries. He took the name of Master of Drudgery.
Its first base of drive was with Southampton, LI., dissimulated in a psychiatric asylum, but it was dismantled by the Vengeurs. The Master managed to flee.
He establishes thereafter a second base with Manhattan but Spider-Man and the Man-Ant prevented it from flying of the nuclear products. It was still obliged to flee.
It later was found “performer” in a circus, where Œil of Falcon had been involved adolescent. This last, helped of the Man-Ant, succeeds in capturing it but the Master succeeds in fleeing.
He is established in a small town of the Ohio and faced the Thing
One recently re-examined it to make team with Agent X, this time on the side of the “good”.
Capacities
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It is not really a capacity, but more one gift that these photographic reflexes. It can reproduce the physical movements of all those which it observes. It is an athlete except par, only limited by its normal physical force.
- With all that it looked at (even on video), it became excellent in many techniques of combat (boxes, various fight, fencing, martial arts, shooting of elite, acrobatics and conjuring…)
- It knows to perfection the style employed by Captain America, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Eye-of-Falcon, the Punisher and the Black Chevalier…
- the Master of Drudgery makes use of counterparts of weapons, like a shield (which it launches like Captain America, a cane of blind man, an arc and a sword. It is also equipped with handguns like guns and knives.